[brianbreslin]

so the only api function they have that looks remotely interesting to me is the prescriptions one. I don't work in the health-tech space, so are there no pre-existing APIs for submitting prescriptions? how do EMR systems do it now?

Maybe there could be an opportunity here for prescription submission + courier/delivery guy API integration to get on demand pickups of meds?

[disposition2]

The prescription API is for existing (Walgreen's) prescriptions or transferring a Rx, it doesn't allow you to submit a new Rx, just order refills, etc.

I believe AllScripts' E-Prescribe pretty much has the market cornered for non-hospital pharmacies. I would think most hospital EMRs would have an integrated eprescribe for their internal pharmacy orders.

[smkelly]

I was part of an AllScripts deployment in a previous job. It is truly awful, as are their deployment teams that you work with. They actually recommended we put the web, database, app, and other tiers on a single subnet/VLAN. "We can't help you do it any other way, we've not done that."

[superchink]

I think you mean Surescripts, rather than AllScripts (EMR vendor).

[ddw]

EMRs have this data and some of them expose it via APIs but there's usually more of an approval process than imagine Walgreen's requires.

[daigoba66]

http://surescripts.com - they pretty much own the market